Labour looking into Abbott’s comments about racism
The Labor Party, Diane Abbott’s interviews about racism, which caused the Labor Party to be suspended for a year, said that he had received “incredibly serious”.
In an interview with BBC’s James Naughtie, he was asked about the discussions triggered by a letter he wrote. Observer in April 2023.
In the letter, he wrote that Irish, Jewish and traveler people lived “prejudice”, which is undoubtedly “similar to racism”.
“It is true that many white people with difference points such as redheads can experience this prejudice. But all their lives are not subject to racism.”
Abbott accelerated the explanations that have been intensively criticized by Jewish and traveling groups and apologize for any pain caused by “.
However, he was suspended from the party and was re -accepted just before last year’s general elections.
He asked Naughtie if he looked at the whole event with regret, “No, not at all.” He said.
“Obviously, there must be a difference between racism about color and other types of racism, because you can see a traveler or a Jewish people walking on the street.
“You don’t know unless you stop talking to them or you’re not at a meeting with them.
“But if you see a black person walking on the street, you will see that they are black. Different types of racism.”
He asked if he believed if he believes he did something wrong or said in his observer letter, he said, “I think it’s stupid to claim that racism, which is only related to skin color, is the same as other types of racism.
“I just … I don’t know why people will say that.”
“There is no place for anti -Semitism in the Labor Party. We take these comments incredibly seriously and we will evaluate them in line with the rules and procedures of the Labor Party.”
Barones Shami Chakrabarti – a Stream of Workers and a friend of Abbott – BBC’s policy of the interview with Live as a deputy with the previous apology, he said.
“As far as I understand … He said that people lived differently – this does not create a hierarchy, this does not mean that a kind of racism is better than the other,” he said.
“I think the people who write ‘Island of Foreigners’ should be a little slow to be tried about Diane Abbott, who has struggled with racism throughout his life,” he added a reference. To the comments made Last month by Keir Starmer.
Another worker’s pendant Lord John Mann – Who A report joint production Enter antisemitism this week – he said: ” [Abbott’s] The components are attacked on the street because they are Jewish, anti -Jewish racism … They know what happened because they live in the daytime and daytime. “
In a comprehensive interview for the Reflections Program recorded in May, Naughtie asked Hackney North and Stoke Newington deputy that he would not condemn his anti -Semitic behavior as racist behavior against someone because of the color of the skin.
“Of course, and I am a little tired of people trying to fix the antisemitic label to me because to combat all kinds of lifelong racism and especially anti -Semitism, partly due to the nature of my election region.”
The stock exchanges came with Abbott discussing his life and career in politics, including his own racism experiences, including the campaign with other radical left wings, including Britain’s first black female deputy and other radical left wings, including Jeremy Corbyn.
He entered the parliament in 1987 and is the mother of the Parliament, the honorary title given to the female deputy currently serving for the longest time.
In April 2023, he was suspended by the Labor Party, who was waiting for an investigation with an experienced deputy, leader Sir Keir Starmer. Saying and condemning the “antisemitic” letter.
Abbott was re -accepted to the Labor Party in May 2024 as a working candidate in the general elections, but even though the internal investigation of his behavior It ended four months ago.
The former shadow Minister of the Interior was given a “official warning” for the National Executive Committee of the Workers’ Party to “prejudice the Labor Party and have a great extent harmful”. He also completed an online anisnetism awareness course.
Naughtie asked by the labor leadership by the Labor Leadership “stuck to dry,” he continued to say that he was subjected to a disciplinary process after his finishing, “In the end, Keir Starmer had to restore the whip to me.
“I got a great support. We had a big rally in the steps of the Hackney Town Hall. In the end, Keir Starmer and the people around him had to retreat because of the support I had from the community.”
He said he was sure that the workers’ leadership was “confident that he’s trying to take me out” and that he had “clues” that he would propose a place in the House of Lords if he resigned as a deputy.
“I never went to this. And today I am a Labor Party deputy and grateful,” he said.
Reflections at BBC Radio 4 at BST on Thursday, July 17th.
